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While doing my
daily reading I ran across a devotion by Charles Spurgeon that inspired the
following encouragement.

“Losses and
adversities are frequently the means which the great Shepherd uses to fetch
home His wondering sheep; like fierce dogs they worry the wonderers back to the
fold.”

My good friend Leroy
New tells a great story about how his grandmother switched him home when he
went beyond the forbidden rail fence.

When we’ve traveled
beyond our land of blessing God will use the switch of loss and adversity to
drive us home if that is what it takes.

The story of the
prodigal son doesn’t tell how long the prodigal stayed gone it just gives us a
glimpse of the pain and shame he suffered while gone.

There is no making
the rebels tame if they are two well feed and used to their carnal security.
Just as “the lions must be brought down from their great strength, and their stomachs
lowered” to persuade them to submit to the tamer’s hand – many of us will be
tamed no other way.

When the undisciplined
rebel leaves home with a little change in his pocket carrying his head in lofty
pride, speaking in exceedingly boastful terms, often it takes the straightness
of bread an hard labor to turn his path toward home once more.

What would it take to bring
you back?

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